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Tweedale - Dale End Finished


awoodford

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Dale End Diary

 

26 October. Yes, the Dale End scene is now declared to be finally complete. No more fiddling. Three months fussing over one square foot of scenery is quite long enough I reckon.

 

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Here's an overall view of the scene.

 

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Beneath the covered area at the right a chute dispenses sawdust into an open wagon, to be transported to the chemical works at Slaghill for processing into ethanol. I can't say I've ever actually heard of sawdust being transported by rail before, at least not in the UK. Anyone know if it was? If the traffic did exist then I assume the wagons would have been sheeted to stop the contents blowing away or turning into porridge in the rain. I gave up on an earlier idea of locating the ethanol plant at Dale End, after consulting Wikipedia and discovering the process of turning wood into ethanol is rather more complicated than just setting up a still in a shed in the forest. The ramp by the goods shed at the rear is for loading livestock. It came from a Canadian prototype - the layout is getting more freelance by the hour.

 

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A passenger train waits to depart. The only folk travelling are some miners, who have been moonlighting as lumberjacks. The passenger service is so basic I thought its image might be improved if it was named. After considering 'The Dalesman' and 'The Tweedale Forester', I've finally plumped for 'The Pines Express' as sufficiently outrageous for the Dale End service.

 

Anyway, time to move on. I've had my fill of trees, and the industrial zone of Slaghill beckons.

 

Cheers, Alan.

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  • RMweb Gold

I really like it, and looking forward to Slaghill's creation. The whole system puts me in mind of somewhere like Peter Barnfield's Whimshire, or The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited.

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Thank you Corbs. I remember Ivor the Engine from the TV series as a child, but I'd never heard of Whimshire before and had to look it up. I was quite intrigued by the brief glimpse I had, and will have to go back and study it in more detail sometime, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. He takes things a step further than I want to go with Tweedale though... I'm not going to start bolting signals to trees for example. I wonder if anyone has actually built a layout based on his 

illustrations.

Alan.

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  • RMweb Gold

A lot of the photos from this blog were lost in the forum crash, I did save as many as I could and re-uploading them here for reference (hopefully in the same order as referenced in the text).

 

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